Preventing selection is quite the useless and user antagonistic pattern...

loloquwowndueo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Disable JavaScript. A site abuses its privilege to execute code in your browser? Take the privilege away. Extensions like uBlock or no script can do this.

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SAI_Peregrinus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's unmaintained, and off-topic for this discussion, but the Luminous JS event blocker¹ was cool because it allowed blocking specific event handlers while still allowing JS to execute.

¹https://gbaptista.github.io/luminous/doc/en-US/

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ChrisMarshallNY 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. That was crazy. I've not encountered that, before.

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PhunkyPhil 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I knew I was a highlighter but reading that showed me how much my brain relies on spam click highlighting to keep my eyes on track. I should probably read more books.

	▲	khalic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fascinating! I wondered why some people did that

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mhb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Turning off Javascript helps.